“Fear of failure leads to failure.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 11 of 107
“If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.”
“Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!”
“To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?”
“The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.”
“I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.”
“We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.”
“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.”
“Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.”
“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”
“As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.”
“And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.”
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.”
“Fear is the great barrier to human growth.”
“Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.”
“Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.”
“I'm holding out a little hope personally because I want to be back, but this injury could take a year to fully recover. The last thing I want to do is feel like I'm OK, come out early and be vulnerable to further injury.”
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
“I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.”